Virginia’s public colleges and universities could soon be required to livestream their Board of Visitors meetings, ensuring ...

In mid-morning, he ran downstairs and snarfed up a cake slice to celebrate state Senator Louise Lucas’s 81st birthday, amid a swarm of solicitous lobbyists. He had started his day at 7 a.m. at House ...

Hundreds of General Assembly bills have died as the 2025 session reaches its crossover day, the time when each body hands ...

Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, talks with reporters outside the House chamber at the state Capitol in Richmond on Jan. 8, 2025. (Markus Schmidt/Virginia Mercury) The legislature met only briefly to ...

Visitors will have a chance to get a close-up look at the project and watch archaeologists on site starting around March.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has proposed making Virginia the first state to deliver a no-tax-on-tips policy, but House Democrats ...

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger are the current presumptive nominees in the race for governor.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Just weeks after former Rep. Abigail Spanberger left the U.S. House for good, she strolled onto the ...

Virginia was one of 12 divided state governments at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the ...

Forty Virginia jurisdictions held meetings in the summer of 1774 in response to the Burgesses’ call ... love and duty to our lawful sovereign George III, whose illustrious house, for several ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — On his last full day as President of the United States, Joe Biden issued pardons for Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, the late Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey and ...

President Joe Biden issued a pardon Sunday of Virginia House Speaker Don Scott for a 1994 non-violent drug offense for which he served almost eight years in prison. “America is a country built ...